Manchester Openshaw (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester Openshaw
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Manchester Openshaw in Lancashire, showing boundaries used from 1974-1983
19551983
Seatsone
Created fromManchester Gorton and Droylsden[1]
Replaced byManchester Central and Oldham West[2]

Manchester Openshaw was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Openshaw district of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1955 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

  1. ^ The Parliamentary Constituencies (Manchester, Oldham and Ashton under Lyne) Order, 1955 (S.I. 1955 No.16)
  2. ^ "'Manchester Openshaw', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 23 March 2016.